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S0UE DAYS.
Sonie days there are when life and love U
Seem best of gifts from heaven above;
Some days when sky and cloud and sea
Bring sweetest thoughts of life to me;
Some days heartaches but tritleA see, 8
And haunting care an idle drean; At
Some days. r
But clouds may eovoi the bluest sky,
And tears 'neath tile softest lashes lie, c
Rough winds may ruile the smoothest sea; c
Forever hid is life's mystery; t
Though lightly to its life's burdens fall, - 1
The sorrow o( others must saaden all
t Somne days.
Why should grass be green and skies be '
blue t
When life is dreary and love untrue?
Why do sunsets fade and nights grow cold? t
Why do friends prove false and hearts
grow old?
Oh! life seems cruel and God but a dream C
And death far sweeter than .ife, I deem- d
Some days.
Forever I follow a vision faij", t
But never shall mine be its presence rare;
For fate is mocking, and hope is vaii;
And my heart cries out in desolate pain,
"lias God no 1hought for the pain below?"
0 heart sore t ed, shall we not know C
Some days? 1
THE MYSTERIOUS LEGAUY.
My grandfather was a sea captain- 1
not a mere claimant of the title, like
the watermen of the lakes and coast
skippers wno never got out of sight of
land, and who, if they got there, could a
never get back-but a genuine "old
salt," trained from boyhood under a
tarpaulln hat, and as familiar with the
"'paths of the sea," as a shepherd is e
with those of thesheepwalk. Spending t
his life on extensive voyages, he was
seldom at home long enough at a time t
for the salt spray to dry on his weather
beaten cheeks; and there was hardly a
port on the habitable globe in which he
could not shake hands with an old ac- f
quaintance, civilized or savage, 1
Of course his history was crowded d
with curious incidents. Most of these,
at which my childish ears tingled and
mny eyes dilated, have become so faded '.J
in memory as to be incapable of a toler- t
able narration. The tollowing, how- 11
ever, made a more lasting impression:
During the calm between the Old i
French war and the American revoli- I1
tion, a large ship was lying at a wharf u
in the town of New York, loaded with
a valuable cargo and ready to sail for li
Liverpool, and thence to whatever part iI
of the globe the chances of commerce c
might dictate. c
This was my grandfather's ship, only v1
waiting for her papers and a fair wind. a
The papers were sooi ready, and short- t
ly after them caine a breeze. Presently a
everything on board was in active pre- at
paration-the casting off and coiling of t
ropes, the unfurling of canvas, and the
Z rumnig up of sailor boys among the e
ratlines like spiders on their webs; j
'hile the sharp, imperative orders of
the mate, and the hearty "ye-hoy-ye?" f
of the cheerful crew echoed over the
rippling waters, which looked in the
rays of the setting sun as if it was cov
ered with a cream of liquid gold.
Just before the last plank was hauled p
in, a stranger stepped hurriedly on L
board and inquired for the captain's
state-room. being conducted hither,
he entered, and with a slight bow, ac
costed the captain, who sat writing at
his desk:
"You are for Liverpool, I believe,
sir?"
"Yes, sir."
"I am in poor health, and, intending
to spend the winter in Italy, wish to
get passage in the first ship that sails
for Europe. Will you take a passen
1ger? I t
"Yes, sir, if my accommodations wvill C
suit you."
".No matter about accommodations, ~
captain. I am an old sailor, an d know a
how to accommodate myself. .Besides, C
the trim of your ship suits my eye." ~
Thle allusion to his ill health attract
ed my grandfather's scrutiny, and time
introuctionm of hinself its an old sailor t
louchedI his heart. On noticing him 1I
imore particularly, he was struck with t
,an unidellnable toelhng of curiosity and
.sympathy at his appearance. ''Tli, I
.st,raight and rather slender, he was
diressed in line black broadcloth, with a t
- sort of Spanish cloak of the same color v
and quality. A two-edged sword, coim
)ion on shipboa; d at that time, and 2
imp~rop)eriy called a cutlass, was partly (
coveredl by his cloak and hung by his I
side without a sheath. His hair was t
quite gray, and( his manly features
wotuld have becen handsome had they I
iot been so emat,iated as to give un- e
pleasant p)rominience to half a dozen il
deep scars on his face. ils eyes were il
blue and futll of expressiomi, but restless a1
ati times, showig ab'ludd(en abstraction, i
Th'le looseness ol' one of his black gloves
gave evidence that lie had lost a linger s
or two from his left hand. Tihese ob- a
servations were made by thme captain ~
.while the stranger was looking at a
beautiful sextant on the table, Turn- i
*ing, as if startled at his forgetfulness, I
he resumed.
".N amne the price, captain, and I willd
pay it now." t1
My grandfather had already lxe.d
the price in his amid, and reliied: e
"You are a sailor, sir, and sick. Thme m
accommiodattionms of my ship, as wedl as I
my services, are at your free coum- I
Tihme languatge of a sailor's heart can-t
not be misuntuerstood, andi knows no
interpreter; and the straniger knew that I
reimonstrance would be uingenaerouas on
ly extended is h;and,a am ny grand.
her, part lihdeshoo rtl, tht heaer
gratitudie, ani lie quickly added:
"I am reitdy to sail, sir. 1s your (
baggage on board?" t
i "his is all my baggage, sir," lie ro- a
plied, showinig hima small black satcmmel
undler his cloak.
Leading haim to a state room thme cal)
tain left him and went on deck, aind t
found the ship already under way, tihe I
sails huled with a stiff breeze, and I
wharves, warehouses and spectators I
fast growing saah ini the distancee. At
i!. lenmgthi, as darkness shut in thme view, .
the wmad, increased to a gale, and from a
a gale to a tempest; and for ten days t
- a~nd,nights the noble ship -which had <
loughed the seas of every latitude,
con Spitzenbergen to New Zealand,
nderwent such a confildt with the ele
,ients as she had never before encoun
ered. During all this time, the stran
er had been confined below with an
pparently rapid consumption, which
ough weather had swiftly matured.
During the storm the duties of the
aptain were so urgent that he could
ny make snatched and hasty visits to
he sick man; and although they could
ave been spared from their quarters,
ae could have hoped for little aid or
ympathy from any of the crew, who,
ith the easy tendency to the supersti
lous peculiar to their class, had asso
iated his presence with the perils of
he ship.
It would have required but slight en
ouragemnent from their officers to In
uce them to pay him the same com
liment that the sailors of Joppa paid
o Jonah, on a similar occasion, when
"'hie sea wrought and was tenlpestu
us."
But on the tenth night, just as the
aptai was ready to answer a sum
uions to visit the sick man's berth, the
torm ceased with a suddenness that
ras startling; the wind was entirely
Ulled; and. no evidence of its fury re
iiained except the long swelling billows
f the sea-the deep after-sighs of its
nighty passion,
The sudden stilling. of the tempest,
,nd the mournful creaking of the spars,
Low audible for the first time for uimauy
ays, forced a shade of melancholy over
imy grandfather's spirits, as lie hast
ned down the gangway at the call of
lie stranger.
As he seated himself beside the borth,
he sick main lixed his brilliant eye upon
ii and said cahnily:
"Captain, I am dyingl
I' hope not, my dear sir; this dread.
ul gale has weakened you. It is over
ow, and you will soon be better."
"No, captain,'' he repeated. "I am
yingl Tie tempest, I know, is over;
u is that other tempest in my breast!
he ship has long been tossed and bea
en about by the fury of the waves, but
has been sunshine and caln con
ared with that tempest, captain! But
t is all over, now-for I have forgiven
ini--he has long been in the grave
ut I have forgiven him!"
My grandfather thought lie was de
rous; but a second look at the deep
itelligence of his eye, and the smiling
almness of his features, forbade the
onclusion. ile gazed at him a moment
ith mingled compassion and curiosity,
nxious to learn something of a history,
he closing scene of which was so (lark
id mysterious, but was unwilling to
sk it. His look was interpreted, and
ie stranger continued:
"I told you Iwasasailor. Of thirty
ve years I have not spent one on land.
lut this was not my choice. Like a
hip, captain, my supports were knocked
romt under me, and I was laimiched
p0n the ocean. My father was an
nglish merchant in Cadiz, extensively
nigaged in navigation. lie lavishly
rovided for my education. Having
raversed the halls of science, I left Ox
.rd and returned to Spain at the age
f twenty. Tie first year of my free
om1 from school I spent in rambling
ver the mountains of that enchanting
ountry. In a deep inland deli, shut
ut from the world, where the earth
as always green and the sky always
hue, I met, one (lay, a beautiful young
hepherdess-and loved her.
"I will not describe her charms, cap
am, for you have been young, and a
cart that has loved needs not to be
old that to the eye of true aifection its
bject has no defects.
"My fa'ther learned my secret-but I
new it not. I had a life-long secret
fterwards which he never learned! He
amne to me one morning, smiled, and
" 'My son, do you want to go to Cuba?'
"'I eagerly answered in the allirma
ive; for it had been a cherished but
itherto forbidden passion with me to
ravel.
"'One of my vessels sails to-morrow,"
e said, "andl you may go."
"This short interval allowved mie 1no
line to bid farewvell to my shepherdess,
rhio was lifty miles distant, nor even to
iform her of my dlepartuire; but [ said
.loud.; 'I'll soon be back,' and many
ithier consolutions,I whlisperied to my
ceart the next day wvhil e bounidinmg over
le Atlantic."
"Thei ship arrived ini good time at
havana, dischlarged her cargo, reload
d anid sailed for---Calcutta! I was a
risoner on my father's sipl, and for
ye long years I was kept from home
s if all the water of the ocean could
rash out my love!"
"I escaped at length from the prisoni
hipi, while lyiing at 1Uio, and took pas
age in a French bark for the Guadal
ulver. N~o circumnavigation of the
lobe was ever so long~ as that voyage.
strained my eyes every day watchinig
or Gibraltar, which I knewv was thous
,nds of miles oif; and every night I
reamed of mountaini rivulets, snowy
Locks, anid 11nn.''
"Arriving ait last at Seville, I hast
ned over thle Nevada, and sought the
unny deli where my affections had so
ong niestled, anid there found that the
clol of my heart was tihe wife of an
t.ndalusian shepherd! She hamd beein
old that I had deserted hler, and after
vardis that I was dead. I did not weep,
or myi) heart was turnled to stone, 'My
aither, said( 1, 'shall never know of his
'ictor.yi' I did not go to see him; It
vas wi~vcked, .1 know, but, burninig with
lie spirit of revenge, I turned again to
hIe sea, anid niever sawv hun moreI
iny tale. In six mionths I was master
I a large saiilinmg vessel-you hlave sieen
hat vessel, capLahin, but nover in port,
uid 1 have often seen you, and knew
'our namie twenty years ago. But no
utter about that. My father contin
iced to freight his ships and sendu them
o different p)arts of the world-but he
iever knew that I sulperintenided a large
>art of his business, anid that imany of
us8 cairgoes found a sale in ports to
whichi tucy had never beeni consigned.
.ls agents sometimes failed to report.
S"1 have said enough, captain; before
.omorrow's sun sets, I shall be in the
maverns of the deen. hut I have for
given him and do not complain. I have
a fortune in the bank of England, but
with it is deposited a will, and the or
phan son of Ina is my heir.
"You have been kind to me, captain,
and in token of gratitude I beg you to
accept my watch and cutlass, and this
paper, which you will carefully pre
serve." So saying, he held out a folded
scrap of paper, which my griandfather
put into his pocket
Morning dawned-but the stranger'i
eyes did not open upon it-they were
closed forever. In the afternoon the
"burial service at sea,'' that most
solemn of sea scenes, was performed
and the shrouded body of the pirate
with a gentle plunge, broke the glassy
surface of the ocean, and sank swiftly
into its mysterious depths.
It was many hours afterwards that
my grandfather bethought himself of
the paper in his pocket. He opened i1
and read as follows:
"Captain Lane: On tho oaoCin point
of Nantucket, at high-water mark, is a
tall, sharp cliff. A quarter league due
west from that cliff is a large, roum]
stone, and near the stone a thornbush,
That bush grows in a very rich soil."
AThe duties of his station kept my
grandfather a long time abroad, and
when he wvas in Boston about twt
years afterwards, and having a few
days of leisure, he was thinking about
acting upon the hint of the enigmatical
paper, when his eye happened to fall or
the following paragraph in the old Bos
ton Messenger:
"WoNDERFUL JDIsCOVE.-AsMr
John Rogers was breaking a piece of
pasture ground on the coast of N an.
tucket, about a month ago, his plough
share turned up a stout thornbush,
sticking to the roots of which Mr. itog
era spied several Spanish dollars. Upon
this he went to digging lustily, and did
not give up till he had hauled out coins,
chielly Spanish doubloons, of more than
$23,000 value. No doubt it was buried
by Captain Kidd or some of his piratic
kin."
"No doubt," thought my g:and
father, as lie put down the paper with i
slight nervousness. In a week he was
again facing the storms of the ocean,
enriching his employers by his skill and
toil, till infirmities finally drove hin
hign and dry on shore. There, in due
time, lie died of old age, leaving little
to his family, except the pirate's eut
'lass which three generations of boys
have used in their iuvenile "training,"
and which, rusted and blunted, may
now be seen in the oice of his great
grandson, a lawyer of New York.
Hie couldn't Help It.
Two tlashily-dressed young men with
enormous diamond pins on their expan
sive shirt-fronts and seal-rings on their
little lingers large enough for paper
weights, sauntered into a confectionery
the other day, and leaned against ti
counter to wait until the numerou
othier.customers had been disposed of,
A young fellow who had just been in
duiging in a dish of ice-cream in th<
parlor at the rear of the store, cain
out to the counter, fumbled in i:
pocket a minute or two and finally said,
"Guess I must have left my purse al
home this time."
"Here, none of that," said the pro
prietor, stepping out from behind the
counter, "you'll have to pay the cash
and you'd better do it right away and
save trouble."
'I'll drop in to-morrow and see about
it," said the impecunious devourer of
ice-cream, who hadn't supposed that
the proprietor would make a fuss when
his store was full of people.
"No you don't," said the proprietor,
grabbing hhim across the couniter, "we
don't trust, and if you doni't shell out
the cash right on the spot, I'll-,'
He wvas suddenly interrupted by the
queer proceedings of onie of the two
y oung men, whom pulled out an elegant
gold watch held it up to his ear to see if
it was going, and then dropped it de
liberately oni the loor. Everybody in
the store clustered about him as he
picked the watch up and opened0( it to
show that it had stopped riining.
"'Sam," said lie, turning to his comn
panion with a horrible grn en his coiln..
tenance and( his lower lip ciurledi out
like a d1roop)ing cabbage leaf,"Sm
wvhy is dis here wvatch jos like do store
we's iin now?''
"Why is dat watch jes like die store
we's iin niow?
Well i don't know. Why is dat ar
watch like de store we's ini now?"
"Case (lore aiin't no tick here," anid
the bejeweled young men griined until
their mouths looked like two Itussiani
leather hiled satchels, and rolled t,heir
eyes until they preseniteui the appear
anice of rubber balls bobbing arounid in
a barrel of mortar. Suddenlhy the two
young men looked at each ether,
started as though they had just wvaked
lup fromi some hrorrible dream, and t,hen
walked out ini tep).
"There's a hundred and fifty dollars'
worth of wvatch gone to thuuder," said
one end-mani to the other, as they reach
ed the sidlewalk, "buit I coiuldii't help
it, it came oni me all at onico, like the
nightmare."
Thle pr(oprietor is still wvaiting for the
impecuniouis young man to co.ne back
and pay for his ice -cream.
The lest ia Notes.
The eldest bank notes are the "flyinig
money," or "' convenient money,'' first
issued in China. 2097 B. C. Originally
these notes were issued by the Treasu
ry, but experience dlictated a change to
thme system of banks under (Gover1nmenlt
inspection and control. A writer in s
provincial paper says that the early
Chinote "greoenbacks" were in all es.
senitials almilar to the mnodern bank
notes, bearing the iiame of thle bank,
the date of issue, the number of thme
note, the signature of the ehicial lssumg8
It, inications of its value in figures, i
words, and ini the p)ictorial representa
tion of coins or heaps o)f colis equal
in amount to its face valuie, and a no.
tice of the p)ains anid penalties of coiin
terfeiting. Over and above all was a
laconic exhortation to sndustry and
thrift.-" Produce all you can ; spend
with economy. ' The notes were printed
in blue ink on paper made from the
fibre of the mulberry tree. Onie issued
in 1399) B. C. is preserved In the Asiatic
Museum at St. Petersburg.
What ParailsbN Is.
So common has become the occur
rence of paralysis in recent years that
many use the word for a slang expres
sion; but for all that it is probable that
a vast majority of the people who think
at all of paralysis reckon that it is a
disease of itself. That some medical
men so regard this condition is plain
from the fact that deat is are frequently
certified to have beell caused by it.
The Incorrectness of this notion will,
however be plain .vheii the conditions
which give rise to paralysis are clearly
set forth, and this we iiow propose.
A carpenter, black imith or some
mechanic, whose business requires him
to wield a Ianunler flnds some moi,
Ing that he is unable tp. raise his halm
nier arm, or perhaps w. ilo at-Work;tIe
man suddenly feels his. 4am become
numb and wook, it falls to his side and
lie 4s no longer able to work. The
doctor to whom the man applis says a
"brachial mhonoplegia- from muscle
tire," which means simply that the
man has overwrought his hammer arm
and it needs rest. To these cases the
very appropriatej name of "artisans'
palsy" is given. Again, alpoor-blooded,
nervously-constructed person, most
likely a woman, meets with a great
shock or has to endure ani tunusual and
prolonged mental or physical effort.
Soon and perhaps without warning,
the individual loses the use of some
part of the body, often of the vocal
apparatus, and the patient is unable to
speak above a whisper. The doctor
says "hysterical paralysis" or "hysteri
cal aplonia," loss of voice. Nopw just
how this comes about we fancy it would
puzzle the most learned doctor to say.
Concerning this condition, however, as
well as the one before mentioned, this
much is known, viz,: that by appropri
ate treatment they recover perfectly
and promptly, very good evidence that
no part of the nervous apparatus is
broken. The faith cures mentioned
from time to time are probably cases
of the kind last mentioned.
It sometimes happens that an intox
icated person will fall asleep with the
head resting upon the ari or with the
arm hanging over a chair back. When
the person wakens the arm is numb; it
tingles and is parAlyzed--another
"brachial nonoplegia,"but really pres
sure upon the tr.unkO of the nerves
which supply the disabled member has
affected those nerves so that they are
unable to perform their usual duty.
The nerves which go out from the
brain and spinal cord to the extremities
are quite comparable to the wires
which are stretched from place to
nlae for electric comhunication, and
Spresure upon or section of those nerves
produces results very like those which
follow an interference"-with the wire.
The- ease just givea - dhhstrates very
well a large number of cases-of palsy
from pressure, for pressure upon the
brain or spinal chord or the nerves
which have their exit therefrom will
produce a palsy whose extent will de
pend upon the extent of tihe pressure
and whose curability will depend upon
the chances for removing the pressure.
Pressure upon tlhe:nerves which supply
one side of the face produces a very
characteristic paralysis and one that
causes many laughable mistakes on the
part of tyros and non-professional peo
ple by their attempts to detect the af
fected side. Pressure upon the brain
or spinal chord is mostly due to the
presence of tumors, to f aotures of the
skull or bones of which the backbone
is formed and to blood clots within the
skull or spinal canal. Patients who
recove-r from diptherL.., scarlet fever
anld some other acuits sicknlesses are
frequently paralyzed in somne par-t.
These cases gener-aily recover by ap
propriate treatmlent, amnd .it is quite
probable thlat many cases would re
cover- spontaneously. Th'le remarks
befor-e made concer-ninlg certain cases
wich r-ecover well ap)plies equally to
tile cases just men3ltionled.
People who work in leatd al-e liable
to a peculiar- form or par-alysis, wich
is fir-st se0en, as a rutle, ini the muscles
of the forearm, oni account of whlich
the patient is unallble to extend( tile
hland upon01 thle arm. At timles tile
wvhole mutscular system is inlvolvedl.
Change of occup1ationl and tile 1use of
remlediies whiich will assist the ehliina
tionl of the mineral fromi the systemi is
the prop)er course for- such p)atient.
Anaiagous forms of paralysis ar-c cauised
by arsenic -ard mlercdury, p)robably by
thmeir act.ioni upon0 the neorve struture1
of tile spinai cordl. Woorarla, thle Ini
(dian arr~ow poisonl, will aliso produ11ce
p)aratlysis if introduced Into tile system
in siuilcient qulant i t,ies. Tile p)aralysin g
eiTect of large doses of aicohlol are w~ell
known. Certain co'nditions, of tihe cir
eculatory apparatus pred isplose to oxtenu
sive andl often inculrable par ulyss
Tihe ar-teries ar-e lastic tubes. ,iy age,
hlard1 wvork, ca-e, aiNd tile p)rolonged use4
of alIcoholhic (drinks, theose tubes lose
tneir eiasticity and1( become br-ittle.
By some event whlich determiines ani
unIusuII La untity of blood to tile bra-in
011e of these no0w Inelastic tubles is
broken, tihe p)oured-out blood clots, as
befor-e men3ftioneCd, and a par-alysis im
mediately follows.
Owing to cer-taint systematid condi
tions5 librinl, a substance nlormaltly sus5
penmdedl im tile blood, lodges upon01 the
1100od-gat.s---valves-of tihe hmear-t.
Pr-esently a p)art of this mailtter' is dis
lodlgedl and1( washeid iway into tihe blood;
perchance ii realches all arltery ini the
br-ain wichUl will niot permit it to pass.
This at onice eutis off tihe blood suiply
fromi a part of Lihe barainl. Th'lese pa
r-alyses are usually extenisive and( lire
nIot readily (listh gu isihed froml thloso
just menOltioned.
Tkhe presence oif wormis inm the b,oweis
of childr-en is believed to pr-oduce pa
ralysis in seome cases. Suchl cases
being dhue to a known removable catuse
are described as reflex par-alyses. Thlese
are not seen alone In children, but ini
adults as well. Finaliy, change in tile
structure of the braml or spinial cord
produce paralysis, varying in extent
Withl the extent of nerve structure In
volved. Such paralyses are especially
obstinate InI those of advanced years.
Chanlge of structure in tihe spinal cord
usually produces disability in tihe legs.
Now, these are the most. common
causes of paralysis and, from what has
been said, it will be observed that pa
ralysis is not a disease of itself. Neither
is it always incurable.
Mldu,Ight Sunuers In N,rway.
Wayfarers on the coast of Norway
are classed as 'rivers,' 'rods,' 'tourists'
and 'Iidnight sunners.' The first
class comprises the renters of salmon
streams, the second the occasional visi
tors of the first, the third are those who
now and then leave the steamer and
penetrate into the interior, and the last
coinaists of those who go direct to the
North Cape by the excellent steamers
starting from Molde or '1'hrondhjem,
and having for their professed mai
objects the sight of the midnight sun
and the satisfaction of standing on the
most northern point of 'iirope. The
sequence ink which these classes are
enumerated indicates their relative so
.eial importance and the degree of res
pwet they receive in the tourist world.
Notwithstanding that the midnight.
sunner is lowest on the scale, his lot is
one by no mcauns to bev despised, and
there is good reason for believing that
when this eminently comfortable, inter
esting and economical route becomes
better known in Great Britain the ig
norance which is there so pretty gener
ally diiused regarding the part of Nor
way within the arctic circle will be
cone dissipated by the tourists who
will seek thiose regions in ai great flocks
as those who now seek the liigllaunls,
and Islands c f Scotland. From the
20th of J unhe to the 18th of July the
Berganke and Nordenfjeblike Steam
ship Company starts a boat from Molde
every e'cin5sday, and from 'lhrondh
jem every Thursday. Tiese ports can
be reached direct either from 1I ull, or
Newcastle or leith' steamers being
changed at. Bergen and Christiansand.
Tile boats are in every respect comfort
able and even luxurious. A good table
is kept and the comfort. of passengers is
im every way considered. Leaving
Throndtijem in the evening, the steamer
coasts in sight of the magnilicent
mountain ranges of the mainland till
the Island of '1'orghatten is reached,
where the tourist is landed, and has
ample time to visit the caverns or tul
nel which perforates the rock. Wind
ing in and out among numberless moun
taimous islands, occasionally creeping
through sounds little broader than twice
the breadth of the ship, and skirting
'Tle Seven sisters of Alstenoe' and
Iestmandoe, the boat arrives at the
'Glaeier Svart.isenl,' wilere again a land
ing is effected, and this inumense ice
river can be easily visited. Bodo is
generally reached on Saturday morning,
whence the course is laid over the West
fjord, and in about four hours the tour
ist finds himself among the wonderful
scenery of the Lofoten Islan'ds. The
visit to this grand region is by no means
a perfunctory one, for the steamer
threads its way through narrow chan
nels to the west coast, and after skirt
ing its great mountain ranges it again
reaches the east coast by the wondrous
"R(afte Sound." On Sunday the pleas
ant town of Tronsoe is reacned, where
a party of Lapps, with their reindeer,
are brought down from the lmolntails
for the inspection of the tourists. On
the following day the ship anchors at
11ammerfest for a couple of hours, and
then sails for the .Notl Cape. Here
the passengers can ascend the cape,
after which the return journey is begun,
and the boat by constant steaming, with
a short (letour into the Lynjen .?jord,
arrives at Molde on the following Sun
day. The sun never sinks below the
horizon for many iiights during the
most northern part of the trip, and it
is nieedtess to say that the eicts pro
duced arec most picturesque and extra
ordmnary. T1hie irate of passage from
Thirondhjemn to the Nor-t (Xpe andt
back, prlovisions included, is ?i2. Ti'iis
for ten days of a most, pleasant and no
vei experience. Th'le whole tirip from
England and back need not, exceed ?230.'
A fter religion and politics ther-e is
nothing about which i ntelligenit people
(liffer so radically as wvhat they call the
cost of living. A skilled nman in somec
departnment of businiess will earn seve
ail thlousandu dol1lars a year, spend noth
ig on1 wie, wonmeni or hor-ses, yet always
be in debt,. Somne acquaintance of his,
withl similar saLlar-y and( a large family,
lives comnfortably, send(s his boys t.o col
lege, drives a good horse and has a snug
lIttle bank account. Thmer-e ar-c mlechamn
incs earing two dlollar-s a day who comn
fortly feed and clothe a family of half
a dozen people, while some of their fel
lowv wvorkmen, marr-ied, but without
clil11rin, live meanly, wear shabby
clothes on Sunidays and are occa:sionaliy
ejected fr-om i,heir hlomnes for nonu-pay
ment of r-enit. The p)rinicipal cause of
the differ-ence may almost always be
found in the family larder, and the famn
Ilhy war-dr obe. Americans whietheri rich
or poor-, know but little more about
economy in food than all equal number
of savages. Some families mnust break
fast either on beef-steak or mutton
chops; others will serve just as much
meat and make it juset as palatable at
ai quarter of the expense of choice cuts
because well cooked. Temperament has
munch linflence on tihe larder. Excita
ble p)e1ple 'will eat twice ais mulch with
ont satisfyinig their hunger, as those of
better- physical balance, yet they will
not (d0 more work. Soume wives will
save the price of a toil of coal by renmew
ing foir 0110 of the children an oldi dress
or suit of clthes; some others, seeming
to be destitute either of tact, skill or
iincilnationi, mnust buy everything newv
oi- go withIout. Economy is a .science
which qJuite a nulnmeof men and wom
en hlave mustered by close observation
land diligent practice; others do not seem
to know of its existence. A few days
ago a couple of ladies who had been re
fitting their parlors compared notes.
Onie had spent just $150 and time other
nlearly $1,500 and the chleaper parlor
was tihe plrettier. E' takes longer to
learn economy than to learn a trade,
but when learned it is the most consol
ing science In existence, no matter howv
much or how little moiey its devotee
may have,
Power or Waior
Stevenson, the great engineer, con
ducted on the West Coast of Scotland
a series of experiments to ascertain the
force exerted by waves, and he found
the average force for the five summer
months to be 611 pounds per square
foot, and for the six winter months 2,
086 pounds. He mentions that the
Bell Rock Lighthouse, 112 feet high, is
odmetimes in spray from ground-swells
when no wind is blowing, and that on
November 20, 1827, the spray was
thrown to a height of 117 feet-equiva
lent to a wave pressure of nearly three Da
tons per square foot; while during a mny
gale in March, 1845, his dynamometer am
registered a pressure of 6,083 pounds
per square foot. He has also recorded
that a rock of forty-two tons on one of
the Hebrides was gradually moved 5
feet in a storm. iagan has reported n
the muoving by waves of a block of con- Inll
crete weighing probably 125 tons. ~
Lxperts swimmers say that the rea- rur
son a man cannot long survive in a
choppy or lumpy sea is that the contin- am
ual pounding of the waves against his "
body uses him up and knocks his wind Wi
out, just as blows from a boxer's fnat Dn
do. The waves move almost as solid E
bodies, and a comparatively small one
weighs a great many pounds, so that F
in bufleting with a choppy sea a swim
mer receives the impact of successive
blows heavy enough to quickly exhaust
hum, and actually pound his life out in y
a short time. Anybody who has been tae
knocked over by a breaker on the beach ,
can form some idea of the weight and
force of water in motion.
F
'Tie power of water under pressure is
more familiar to most persons, as illus
trations are continually to be seen at
fires in the effects of hose streams di- et
rected against walls and windows. But oi
to fully appreciate this one needs to JO'
witness the operation of hydraulic min- ?Le
ig in the West. The steam from a
monitor nozzle will tear a hill all to a
pieces at a marvellous rate and wash
away bowlders like chips. Across the
Washoe Valley in Nevada are laid 'r
pipes to convey water from Marlette ver
Lake to Virginia City, the depression pur
in the line being 1,720 feet, which gives y
a Pressnre on the pipes of 800 pounds to tbis
the square inch. A stream of water a
coming through a break in the joint no
larger than a knitting needle bores t
through rock like a sand blast. The
flying water is as hard asi ron, and feels
rough like a tile to the touch. It is
impossible to turn it with the hand, as a Iu
it tears the flesh from the bones, and if you
the fingers are stuck into the stream ?
with the points up the nails are instant
ly turned back, and sometimes torn F
loose from the flesh.
The tremendous power of water has
not been utilized to any great extent in
doing the work If the world, the tur- hat
bine wheel, the cotton press and the ago
hydraulic nozzle being the principal ap- t
pliances to which it has been adapted, of
but no doubt human ingenuity will one em
day devise a harness for the ocean and ant
compel the billows, that now tear down, A
to aid in building up. Man has not
learned to use half the forces of nature
that are at his hand, clamoring for ,
work to do, and of all these unemployed hl a
powers the wave is the most tangible r
and dircat in action. Ver
Fishing was a far earlier mode of nt
supporting human life than ag, aculture. lm,
However far back in tlhe stream of ter- 1ti
restrial events we may suppose it allow- St
able to carry the date of appearanne on A itH
the scone, still lie must have been pro- n
ceded by fIsh. Thie rivers, lakes, and
seas, when he first looked upon them, u
must have beenm p)eopled very macli as
they arc at this day. Tihere was ats
greamt a variety of species, and probably
much the same inlinitude of individuals 2
in some of those species. And as a hav
savage population must be always sparse, has
and in any locality few ini number,
their supply of food from this source "
could only have beeni limited by their
inability to capture it. What the wild
game of the forest and1 of the openi
p)lainsH were to the inland hunting tribes, Ma
the fish of the fresh and of the salt- wa
ier were to the riverine and the marl-i-u
tiune tribes. Between those early days ha
awl the hirst begiming of agriculture lar,
vast periods of time umust have elapsed.
First, becase ini these, andl more or less .jus
in all latitnudes. nature offered to man i m
no0 plant that in its unimp)roved state (R
was worth cultivating. The suitable1
form had to be evolved or created by
long p)rocess'es of obs~ervationm and1 selec
tion. This is wvhy wve know nothing of
the parentage of wvheati, barley, oats, .
rye, beans, or maize, and why the trope 2"
ical bread-frmutt, plantain, banana, anid see
sugar-cane have lost the power of pro- *~O
(uueing seed, andi so of reproducing
themselves; this must have been a re
suit of long ages of human selection.
Nothing of the kind had to be done for a:
fish, There it was as lit for human ciii
food on the first day thaut nmn stood on
the river banik of the sea-shore as it Is any~
at tils day. Agriculture also required
impleemts to clear and stir the ground
and to gather in the crops with, and
these implements we know were the re
suIt of a long series of disooveries, im- 'r
provements, anid advances. Primeval wre
man, therefore, as we now road his his- R
tory, could not have lived by, or' known
anything of agriculture. Nor could lhe
have lived by wild fruits, for they are
nmot continuous throughout the year. mya
They have their season, and that a brief any
one0. He must then havehlved by hunt--"~
lng and fishing; and of the two fishing pra
would be time most continuous and an.. ree<
failing thiroughout,the changing seasons,
the most valuable of all qualities for w
those ill-supplied times. It would not
be more diflicult to hook, and spear,
and not, anmd trap fish and to gather eg
mollusks from the rooks and sand-banks eiast
than to trap or pierce with arrows wild wo~
game. Oar Imnmediate comparison,
however, is with ~agriculture; and wve ""
may be sure that not In it were the
foundations of society laid, but in hunt
lng and fishing, and that of these two, m,,e
as the great carnivors at first had pos- ?11.
session of the forest anid the plain fe*
against intruding man, fishing was the tep
main primeval occupation and inmean.s of
sublstence, ,
ilE VERDICT
THE PEOPLE.
DY THE BEST!
IR. J. 0. BoAo -Dear Sir : I bought the first
vie Machine sold by you over ave years ago for
wife who has given it a long and fair trial. I
welt pleased with it. It never Rives any
uble, and to as good as when first bought.
J. W. IJOLiOL.
Vinusboro, S. C., AprI, 1893.
Ir. Boao: Ton wish to know what r have to say
egard to the Davis Machine bought of you three
re ago. I feel I can't say too much in its favor.
ile about $80,00 within five months, at times
ning it No fast that the needle would get per
iy hot from -friction. I feel confident I could
have done the same work witlt as much ease
so well with any other machine. No time lost
idjustutg attachments. The lightest running
Lhine i have ever treadled. Brother James and
ilain' famillp are as much pleased with theli
ia Machines bought of you. I want no better
1ahme. As I maid before, I don't think too
cl can be said for the Davis Machine.
- ltespectfuity,
ELLEN STE VENSON,
airiiid County. April, 18s8.
it. 10AU : My m.vchlue gives me perfect Satis4
ion. I and no fault with it. '1The attachments
so aim Pe. I wish for no better than the Davis
tical Feed.
Respectfully.
MRs. R. MILLINo.
airlield county, April, 1883.
i. lit to : I bought a i)avis Vertical FeeA
ing \I trhhue trout you four years ago. I am
ghteil with it. It never has given me any
tule, and has never been the least out of order.
a as good as when I first bought it. I can
erfully recommend It.
tespectfully,
MR, I. J. KIiRaANDI.
omtltullo, Atnil 10, 1883.
lls i to certify tilat I have been using a DaVIs
tlc-"l Feed yewing Machine for over tw Iyears,
:liased of Mr. J. 0. Iloag. I haven't found I t
ieased of any fault-all the attachments are so
Ple. It never refuses to wor, and Is certalnly
llghtest running in the market. I consider I
at class machine.
Very respect fully
MINNIE M. Wtt.t.INouaa,
aklanl, Fairfield county, S. C.
It BOAe : I am wel ineasott in every parttcul
I the Davis Machine nought of you. ( tinauk
st-clas: machine in every respect. You know
sold several machines of the same sIake to
erent members of our families, all of whom,
an as I know, are well pleased with them.
Respectfully,
Mul. M. it. Mosmaiv.
airlield county, April, 18.
his Ito certity we have tisa t constant use
Davis Machine bought of you about three years
. As we take In work, and have made the
e of it several titues over, we don't want say
er machine. It is always ready to do any kind
rork we nave to do. No puckering or skipping
lios. We can only say we are well pleased
wish no better machine,
ALTHErINti WYLIE AND SISTER.
pri 5, 1s8,:
lave no rault to find with ny machlas, and
t want sny better. I have tails the price of
vera times by taking in sewing. It Is al.vays
ly to do us work. I think t ita firs-class ina
i. I feel I can t say too muonn for the Davis
tncal Feed Machine.
MaS, THoMas SMITH.
tirtleld county, April, 1893.
i. J. 0. BoAu-Dear Sir: It gives me m'ici
sure to testify to tne merits of the )avls Vor.
I Feed Sewing Machine. The mahline I got of
about flive years ago. has been almost in con
,t uise ever aince Miat thun. I cannot see that
worn any, and has not cost me onat cent for
iirs alnen we have had it. Am welt pleased
don't wish fur aiiy better.
Yours truly,
ltoBT. Ct IWFORD,
ranite Qc arry, near Winnsboro 8. U.
e have aused the Davis Vertical Fee,l Sewing
hine for the tust five years. We would not
any oilher make at any pt'ice. The mnaclue
given us unboundert satIsfactIon.
Very respect fully,
Mats. W. K. TUaaui ANaD DAUQIITRsjs
dileld county, S. C,, Jan. 2r. 1893.
avng hiought a Davis VertIeal Feed Sewing
hine from Mr. J. 0. Boag some three years
and It having given me perfect matisfaction in
'y respect as a family macliac. both for hea'y
light sewing, amnd never needod the least re
lun:iny way, 1 can ceerfully recommuend it to
one as a flrst-class machine In every partlcu
and think it second to none. It is one of the
pleat manhimes imado; my chiliren uime it with
ise. Tihie attachinents are more easily ad
edi amid it does a greater range of worit by
mns of Its Vertical ?Veod than any otiior ma
le I have aver seen or used.
MRS. TiioMA5 OwiaNos.
linnsbioro, Pairfield county, 8. 0.
'e have bad one of the Davis Maclines about
years and have always found It reamly to do all
Is of wora we have had occasion to do. Can4t
that the machine is worn any, and works as
I as wnen now.
Mas. W. J. CRAWFORD,
,Jackson's Creek, Fairfield county, 8. C.
y wife is highly pleased with tihe Davis Ma
le bought of you. She would not take double
it sne gave for it. Tlhe maoniue has not
a out of order since she had it, and she can do
kind of work on it.
Very Ieospeotfully,
JAB. Fi. Fuss.
on; lcollo, lFairield county, 8. C.
me D)avis Sewing Machine Is sImply a trees
Mats. J. A. (GoODwYN.
dgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, less..
1) DoAa, ECsq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife
'ieen usiug a Davis Sewing Machine constant
>r mime past four years, andl it has nevem needed
repairs an a works just as well as when first
fht, lJhe says It will do a greater range of
tieal work s'nd do It easier aind bett%r than
inachine she nas ever usmed. We cheerfully
mnmlendl it as a No. I faily mnachine,
Your tru.y, JS .Dvs
inneboro, S. C.. Jan. 3, 1888.
It. 1D0to: I hlave aiways found my Davis Ma
e r,ady do all *..nida of to work I have haIl 00
oIn to do. I cannot see that t40 machine is
a a parti dle and it works as wedl as when new.
Iteapectfuilly,
*Mba. . 0 . GJOODING.
inesboro, 15. 0., April,.1888,
R. BOAG: My wife has been constantly using
Davis Machine bought of you about liVe years
I have never regretted bu i i, as at ia
17. read1y for any kind of famaI sewig eIor
eyor light. It is never out Of Axor eIn
Very repctu
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